Salient Angles
, in fortification, are those angles in a rampart which point outwards towards the country; those which point inwards towards the place fortified are called “re-entering angles.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.